[188-190] We may be reminded that, according to our observation, the reviews by Chernyshevsky we have examined appeared already after the historical views of Marx and Engels had taken shape into a coherent whole. We have not forgotten this. But we think that the matter is not decided here by simple chronological references. The principal works of Lassalle also appeared after the historical views of Marx and Engels had taken on a coherent form, and yet, by their ideological content, these works too belong to the epoch of transition from historical idealism to historical materialism. The question is not when a given work was published, but what its content was...

We shall not repeat that Chernyshevsky was still far removed from a break with idealism and that his

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